tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621024.post112958647207326846..comments2024-01-09T03:52:43.027-08:00Comments on The Abstract Factory: The Google Print shakedownKeunwoo Lee (Cog)http://www.blogger.com/profile/05577836853536292311noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621024.post-1130709068263710832005-10-30T13:51:00.000-08:002005-10-30T13:51:00.000-08:00Almost all "Copyright" fights in the past 3 decade...Almost all "Copyright" fights in the past 3 decades have been less about the works themselves and more about control of the sales channel. Without control of the sales channel big groups like Music and Movie publishers will have less control and less predictability on how much money they make on any one particualar title. By controling and spoonfeeding the public they can keep us wanting for more, when if we knew about everything out there, we may not rush to buy up the latest round of tripe that they are selling this week.<BR/><BR/>While piracy cannot be given a free pass, neither can the control and perversion of the free markets that large copyright owners are doing.<BR/><BR/>Google, like Apple, is a company who has power and is using to bring about change and freedom to traditionally closed markets and I wish them both luck!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621024.post-1129654074597101742005-10-18T09:47:00.000-07:002005-10-18T09:47:00.000-07:00I think you have the right read on this one. But ...I think you have the right read on this one. But isn’t this just another instance on the ongoing attack on the original concept of copyright? Copyright was first intended to be brief in recognition of both the usefulness of giving an incentive to produce work and of the even greater usefulness to society to have a wealth of common knowledge. The dramatic increase in the length of copyright is also just greed. The corporations consider their profits more important to themselves than our cultural heritage is to all the rest of us. Sadly, the public that is hurt by this doesn’t object much. I wish more people would see this greed as theft. I’ve never liked the use of “property rights” language applied to ideas. There are big differences between property and ideas. But we have been suffering under relentless pressure to think of them as the same.<BR/><BR/>Google would be having less of a problem if copyright had never been extended in the first place.driftwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06307983826591633035noreply@blogger.com